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Top papers by Abstract Accesses last month (2024-06)

Paper	Accesses
On the Freetown Waterfront: Household Income and Informal Wage Labour in a Nineteenth Century Port City Laura Channing, Bronwen Everill	12
Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration Belinda Archibong, Nonso Obikili	12
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development Emmanuel Akyeampong	9
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa Felix Meier zu Selhausen	9
"For the public benefit": Railways in the British Cape Colony Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, Johan Fourie	8
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates Sumner La Croix	8
THE GUN-SLAVE HYPOTHESIS AND THE 18TH CENTURY BRITISH SLAVE TRADE Warren C. Whatley	7
The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s Leigh Gardner	7
Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Dirk Bezemer, Jutta Bolt, Robert Lenzink	7
Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony Igor Martins	6
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present Ewout Frankema, Morten Jerven	6
Why Africa is not that poor Ewout Frankema	6
Colonialism and development in Africa Leander Heldring, James A. Robinson	6
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times Denis Cogneau, Alexander Moradi	6
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review Morten Jerven	6

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Top papers by Downloads last month (2024-06)

Paper	Downloads
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates Sumner La Croix	9
Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910 Abel Gwaindepi	9
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier Calumet Links, Erik Green, Johan Fourie	8
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years Jens Andersson	7
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa Felix Meier zu Selhausen	6
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970 Shane Doyle, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf	4
MINING, PATERNALISM AND THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION IN THE CONGO SINCE 1920 Dácil Juif	4
Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa Jutta Bolt, Leigh Gardner	3
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development Emmanuel Akyeampong	3
Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960 Prince Young Aboagye, Jutta Bolt	1
The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics Over Two Centuries Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie	1
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders Igor Martins	1
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa Morten Jerven	1

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Top papers by Abstract Accesses last 3 months (2024-04 to 2024-06)

Paper	Accesses
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development Emmanuel Akyeampong	32
On the Freetown Waterfront: Household Income and Informal Wage Labour in a Nineteenth Century Port City Laura Channing, Bronwen Everill	31
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates Sumner La Croix	29
Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony Igor Martins	27
"For the public benefit": Railways in the British Cape Colony Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, Johan Fourie	26
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review Morten Jerven	24
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times Denis Cogneau, Alexander Moradi	24
Why Africa is not that poor Ewout Frankema	24
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years Jens Andersson	22
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present Ewout Frankema, Morten Jerven	22

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Top papers by Downloads last 3 months (2024-04 to 2024-06)

Paper	Downloads
Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910 Abel Gwaindepi	10
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates Sumner La Croix	10
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier Calumet Links, Erik Green, Johan Fourie	8
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years Jens Andersson	7
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa Felix Meier zu Selhausen	6
MINING, PATERNALISM AND THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION IN THE CONGO SINCE 1920 Dácil Juif	5
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970 Shane Doyle, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf	4
Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa Jutta Bolt, Leigh Gardner	3
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development Emmanuel Akyeampong	3
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa Morten Jerven	2
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders Igor Martins	2

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Top papers by Abstract Accesses all months (from 2013-04)

Paper	Accesses
Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Dirk Bezemer, Jutta Bolt, Robert Lenzink	331
The economics of slavery in 18th century Cape Colony: Revising the Nieboer-Domar hypothesis Erik Green	329
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times Denis Cogneau, Alexander Moradi	298
Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980 Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin, Jörg Baten	283
VENT FOR SURPLUS OR PRODUCTIVITY BREAKTHROUGH? THE GHANAIAN COCOA TAKE-OFF, c.1890-1936 Gareth Austin	281
Colonialism and development in Africa Leander Heldring, James A. Robinson	268
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi, Ellen Hillbom	261
Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African agency: Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940 Erik Green	245
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954 Morten Jerven	232
FISCAL CAPACITY AND STATE FORMATION IN FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA 1850-2010 Jens Andersson	199

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Top papers by Downloads all months (from 2013-04)

Paper	Downloads
Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910 Abel Gwaindepi	15
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates Sumner La Croix	13
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier Calumet Links, Erik Green, Johan Fourie	10
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years Jens Andersson	9
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa Felix Meier zu Selhausen	9
MINING, PATERNALISM AND THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION IN THE CONGO SINCE 1920 Dácil Juif	7
The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development Rémi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Alexander Moradi	6
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970 Shane Doyle, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf	6
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders Igor Martins	6
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa Morten Jerven	5
Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa Jutta Bolt, Leigh Gardner	5

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